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I tried to use Wine on MacOS for 4 beloved Windows programs I still cant live without 10 years after I moved away from M$:

- Foobar2000 (unfortiunatly very CPU heavy with audio problems, some incompatibilities)

- Subtitle Edit

- Advanced Renamer

- Faststone Viewer

All fairly ordinary tools but I didnt find suitable alternatives in all these years. Especially FB2K. Hope the Macos version will soon reach feature parity!

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Oh nice, I used to be a passionate Foobar2000 user as well back in the day! Can't say I have a Mac alternative nowadays though, I'm using Navidrome[0] with all my music stored on a cheap VPS, this way I can play the music from wherever (including mobile[1]).

And FastStone Image Viewer is also familiar. :) Seems like I've turned lazy (and "cloudy") in recent years, Google Photos is just so convenient.

[0] https://www.navidrome.org/ [1] I'm using Subtracks on Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.subtracks

I'm big into archiving. It's almost autistic how perfect I want my media to be named and tagged and bpm'ed and with fitting cover art and so on Foobar with the that wealth of addons helped a lot:

- Buttons to search for images with artist and album name

- complex renaming patterns

- replaygaining

- batch editing tags...

There is so much I love (ed) about it!

Haven't tried navidrome yet but was planning on installing a multiroom soundsystem with navidrom and snapcast. But that just serves a different purpise :-)

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